Tag Archives: Governor Jerry Brown

Munchkin: As Coroner I must aver, I thoroughly examined her, and she’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead.

Chris Reed, writing for Cal Watchdog has the best take on the recent death of Jerry Brown’s Bullet Train discusses their last hope — that the ChiComs might step in to save the High-Speed Rail project because of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s visit to Beijing a few years ago: Continue reading→

California state tax collection beat Governor Brown’s 2013-14 Budget by $4.3 billion, or 39.1%, last month. The out-performance was due to two expected one-time events that took place by December; $1 billion in delayed sales tax deposits and $3.3 billion of taxes on capital gains, dividends and bonuses collected in January for a prior period. But in what should be very disturbing to giddy state politicians and lobbyists who are cranking up for a new spending spree; January sales taxes plunged by $582.7 million, or 27%. It seems that “Taxafornia” finally raised taxes so high that affluent residents are moving their investment and spending elsewhere. Continue reading→

From various sources, this story’s batted around the Internet for the last few days: Study: CA Worst-Governed State in America. So, it wasn’t a bit surprising to see an immediate example of how Jerry Brown, the liberal Democrats have and the teachers union that funded its campaign lied about Proposition 30 in a Register editorial this a.m.: Prop. 30’s pension boost. The only remaining question is how much of 30’s taxes will actually get into CalSTRS’ pension accounts, and not to the schools where Brown and the unions led voters to believe it positively was going. Continue reading→

There is nothing like the threat of insolvency and a downgrade to junk bond status to motivate traditionally liberal politicians to abandon the environmentalists who heavily fund their campaigns. Last week Governor Jerry Brown of California tossed one of his core campaign-bundling constituency under-the-bus at a bill-signing event in downtown Los Angeles. As Brown signed his third measure this year that dramatically narrows the “sustainable” crowd’s ability to use litigation to delay or kill capital projects, the governor said it is time for, “big ideas and big projects,” especially ones to “get people working.” With the pace of public insolvencies and Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy fillings accelerating across the U.S., Brown is the vanguard for high profile progressives willing to bet that capitalism can pull them back from the precipice of disgrace and potential recall. Continue reading→